Who here ACTUALLY plays HeroQuest?

[slev]

or however ladies swear

Usually worse than the men where I hang out.

[cynthialee]

Last December, I finished a 7.5 year campaign. I'm taking a break.

Now that is epic. But I would feel like: by the end of such a long game.

[slev]

Last December, I finished a 7.5 year campaign. I'm taking a break.

Now that is epic. But I would feel like: by the end of such a long game.

That's why I haven't played in a year. Just Advanced HeroQuest & Decent to cover my dungeon-bash needs.

[sajungzak]

We usually play with extended family on holidays. We're on quest six, started a few months ago.

[knightkrawler]

Truth be told, I've been playtesting alone and with my friend more than really played a campaign in the last year and a half or so.
When I've finished my ruleset and re-writing, I'll have 8 people or so to get a campaign going. My whole hero class system is laid out for changing players.

If I didn't play at all, I'd still come here and spread my wisdom, because you people are more awesome than most people I know personally.

[Sotiris]

If I didn't play at all, I'd still come here and spread my wisdom, because you people are more awesome than most people I know personally.

Touching words

[torilen]

Slev - I would kill a hobo if I could play a campaign that long. That is epic to the highest.

Schmidt - that made me laugh good. I wish my wife would even play, much less calling from
her sickbed. Too funny.

So, yes, I haven't played in well over 10 or 15 years. I haven't even played any D&D in over
8 years or so. I find it hard to find a group to play with...much less a group that would want
to play HQ, and on top of that I've got work and a wife and young kids (a third on the way).

Maybe when this last kid is 3 or 4, the other two will be old enough to fend for themselves a
bit with the wife puttering around, and I'll find the time to get out and do something...make
friends again.

I've got some folks from church that I talk to often, and would love to hang out with them (again,
we're all busy with life) - but I haven't ever brought up playing HQ with any of them. Kind of afraid
to. They're all open minded enough that they wouldn't judge me as a satan worshipper or anything.
But I have the nerd title enough - and I'm afraid that will just get worse.
(WOW do I sound like a teenage little girl or what?)

[Count Mohawk]

I first discovered HeroQuest as a game in my older stepbrother's collection around 12 years ago. We played a couple of times, but not much, and I didn't see much of that brother anyway after a while.

All may have been lost for HeroQuest but for a fortuitous find in the church bazaar a few years later! It was missing all the monster pieces, but I had and still have an enormous supply of chess pieces so we substituted them instead. My younger brother and I played about a Quest Pack's worth, but kept the game around afterward due to the memories.

Fast-forward a few more years into my college days. I needed something to do with my new-found access to the Internet, so I read a lot on various board game forums and eventually stumbled across the original Agin's Inn before it was shut down, as well as Old Scratch's Hero Quest forum afterwards. I did a lot of reading on there, but it wasn't until Slev started making HQR that the younger bro and I started back on the Questing path. By now, by the way, I had replaced the missing figures and obtained a second set which was complete, practically mint-in-box. We started with Against the Ogre Horde, moved through the Wizards of Morcar and then proceeded to suffer a slew of character deaths in the Frozen Horror, culminating in two full-party deaths on Heart of Ice at the very end. (Slev threw in a bunch of extra Healing potions in his rendition of that pack, but that was mostly after and in response to our own adventures.) We had to put the game down until the beginning of the next summer due to school, then played packs 7 through 12 of the series over the next two summers.

In the last two or three years since then, though, I have played HeroQuest maybe twice. Unfortunately, I don't have a wide enough pool of friends to bring about a new party of adventurers, so I have to content myself with backseat gaming and working on my own Questing materials, such as writing Heralds of Chaos and expanding the Hero Spell Groups / magic in general.

Edit: And apparently that was post #100. Not too impressive given there are a few members with four-digit postcounts, but I thought it noteworthy nonetheless.

[whitebeard]

Maybe when this last kid is 3 or 4, the other two will be old enough to fend for themselves a
bit with the wife puttering around, and I'll find the time to get out and do something...make
friends again.

You've got it all wrong. They are your kids so they are going to love HeroQuest. Seriously, play with them. I stumbled upon the game looking to print a new game board for TSR's "Dungeon!" which my then 5 year old was really excited about (but I was quite tired of). He's almost 8 now and he makes his own short quests which are quite good despite the flexible BP accounting in favor of the monsters.

[mako-heart]

I play, I thought this was a joke topic to upgrade members status!! The real question is who ACTUALLY paints and plays... great thread GK. the problem is people don't have time to get gaming groups to unite around HQ my